There are many, many reasons I’m glad my tour of duty as an elementary school mother is over. Sure, I enjoyed aspects of having younger children like being able to actually understand their homework. I […]
Category: P.T.A.
Five Ways to Get Out of Volunteering At Your Kid’s School
It starts in late summer with emails from the PTO alerting you to various “fulfilling” volunteer opportunities awaiting you at your kid’s school. On the first day of your school your child’s backpack is stuffed […]
The Reverse Stubing – Part 3
You’ll be relieved to know the whole me in disguise scenario was quickly abandoned. Nikki, diplomatically pointed out that my, “Personality was too unique to camouflage.” What she really meant was my fat ass, but […]
The School Newsletter I Would Like to Read
I’ve been in the elementary school trenches for a decade and counting. Out of those ten years, eight have been spent on some kind of Parent Teacher board and three of those years I was […]
The Suburban Anthropologist’s Definitive Guide to the Elementary School Mother (Revised for 2013)
As another school year is beginning I would be remiss if I didn’t share this compelling research completed by my keen scientific mind (and by scientific I mean snarky). I consider myself one of the […]
Snarky in the Suburbs 